Are you spiritually mature? And what exactly is spiritual maturity?
I’ll
start by defining: Spiritual maturity is achieved by becoming more like Jesus. It is a process that begins when a person accepts Jesus as their personal Lord and savior. Simply put, it is being mature spiritually, not a physical growth, but a spiritual growth that reflects in your attitude, behavior and character.
The
Christian faith is likened to that of a child. He that has the Son of God has
life. If you are born you must grow. So also, if you are born again you have
the potentiality to grow in the Christian faith.
Is
Spiritual Maturity by the number of years you’ve spent in the church? Or by
age?
Spiritual
maturity has nothing to do with the number of years you have been born again or
by your physical age. You can be advanced in age but still be spiritually young
or a baby in Christ.
How do I know I’m growing in my Christian
experience?
Here
are five signs that show a person is spiritually mature;
NOTE:
In the Christian experience, no one is fully grown. It is until you meet with
the master face to face.
1. Mature Christians make every effort to build on their faith: He/she is not complacent.
There is a zeal, a hunger, a thirst. He/she wants to grow. He is never satisfied
with what he has achieved. Growing here means be intimate with God. It is a
hunger for intimacy with God.
Psalm 42:1 : As
the dear pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. (NIV)
During
prayer session he does not boast. A lot of times we take God’s grace for
granted and misbehave in his presence. A mature Christian is truthful to God.
There is humility.
What
kind of relationship do you have with God?
2 Peter 1: 5-9 : To your faith add virtue (character); and to your virtue,
knowledge (How much of the bible do you know?); add to your knowledge
temperance, (self-control); and to temperance, patience (perseverance); and to
patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness (how do you address
and relate to people?); and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess
these qualities in increasing measures, they will keep you from being
ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of Christ. But if anyone does
not have them, he is near-sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been
cleansed from his past sins.
You
are punishing yourself holding a grudge
The
change you want in others should actually begin with you!
Matthew 7:1-5 : “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way
you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye
and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your
brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a
plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye,
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
(NIV)
How
do you talk?
Ephesians 4:29 : Do not let unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
what is helping for building others up according to their needs, that it may
benefit all those who listen.
Be
mindful how you crack jokes
NOTE:
This is not to say that there are only four signs that mark spiritual maturity,
there are probably others. These only the ones I’m aware of.
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